web3.js VS ethers.js

Web3.js (16500 GitHub Stars) https://github.com/web3/web3.js/

- https://github.com/web3/web3.js - Web3 JavaScript

last I checked web3.js only supports EVM coins / tokens. Was there an announcement I missed?

I have attempted to increase the maxReceivedFrameSize in my truffle-config, which is a solution offered here like so:

Here is a way to do this using web3.js.

Since we will build a Web3 example, the web3 framework was installed using npm (other options can be found here):

yeah, I could see that.

web3.js is a super bloated library and will be added more frequently unless a team does a more optimal version from scratch

https://github.com/ChainSafe/web3.js/issues/1178

- https://github.com/ethers-io/ethers.js/ - Ethers JavaScript / TypeScript - Possibly more clean that Web3 JavaScript

ethers.js and MetaMask

Also, this seems relevant: https://github.com/ethers-io/ethers.js/discussions/1899

You can find more details in this ethers github issue.

Also I stumbled upon this thread and apparently as of now ethers js doesn't* support retrieving revert strings

I think I found on interesting code on source : https://github.com/ethers-io/ethers.js/blob/c80fcddf50a9023486e9f9acb1848aba4c19f7b6/packages/providers/src.ts/json-rpc-provider.ts

This is what ethers.js is built for. You'll need a node provider like Alchemy to connect to but once you're set up you can read anything you want from the blockchain.

RainbowKit uses Ethers.js and Wagmi, both popular libraries in this space, under the hood.

This is a step-by-step tutorial on how to create a front end, deploy a Solidity smart contract, and connect them together. We will use Metamask, Remix IDE and Ethers.js.